(T)his bill – proposed by Republicans, remember – is fiscally to the left of the Senate Democrats’ and President Obama’s proposals.

The U.S. farm sector has been highly government-centric longer than just about any other. The Tech sector, meanwhile, was arguably the most free from Leviathan constriction – until the Barack Obama Administration came to town.

The 2010 Tea Party election – which delivered the Republican-majority House – caused the President to amp up his unConstitutional, unilateral power grab game.

Ignoring the resounding message sent by voters only a couple weeks ago, the Obama administration has decided to move ahead with its socialist transformation of America through federal fiat starting with Net Neutrality….

The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro.

Brazil demonstrations were sparked by specific grievances against the government. But the underlying frustrations stems from failed economic policies that have slowed productivity growth and hurt entrepreneurialism.

And what “failed economic policies” are they protesting? The same Huge Government ones we’re being force fed here. (Sounds like a Brazilian Tea Party.)

(O)ne of the major sticking points of the proposal and the apparent reason why voting of the bill has taken so long is the (Net) Neutrality issue. The (bill) would crack down on current practices of Brazilian internet providers….

President Obama’s Brazilian buddy President da Silva is now gone – replaced by the even more Leftist Dilma Rousseff (who was in power when Brazil bamboozled Obama on the oil). President Rousseff:

(B)ecame a socialist during her youth, and following the 1964 coup d’etat joined various left-wing and Marxist urban guerrilla groups….In 2000, after an internal dispute in (da Silva’s party), she left…and joined the Workers Party.

The dispute? Rousseff found the party too moderate for her tastes.

And she is now as President ramming through even more Huge Government – like ever-more-gi-normous farm subsidies and a Net Neutrality takeover of the Internet.

Sounds a lot like us. With similar failed economic results. And a similar citizen revolt rising up to protest the Fail.

Will the U.S. and/or Brazil finally learn that central planning doesn’t and hasn’t ever worked?